2. Vladimir Lenin
• Leader of the Bolsheviks
• Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician
• Proletariat- a term used to identify a lower social class, usually
the working class
• NEP- Allowing some private ventures, the NEP allowed small
animal businesses or smoke shops, for instance, to reopen for
private profit while the state continued to control banks, foreign
trade, and large industries.
3. Stalin
• His elimination of his “enemies”
• His plan to better the country by having each person participate
in making foods, but everyone began to starve because all his
men and himself were taking it.
• Collectivization- to change peasant farms to collective farms to
attempt to increase the food supply in urban areas.
4. Leon Trotsky
• Commissar for foreign affairs.
• He was the man who everyone thought
would take over after Lenin's death.
5. Mao Zedong
• He was a leader of the Chinese
Revolution
• He was an architect
• Chiang Kai-shek
• Communists
6. Mao continued...
• The great leap forward was an attempt
to increase agricultural and industrial
production.
• Years of floods and bad harvests
resulted this plan.
• The cultural revolutions main goal was
to enforce socialism.
